2 Brothers Remembered As Heroes at
Mass in L.I.

Cop, firefighter 'patriots'

By WARREN
WOODBERRY Jr. and OWEN MORITZ
Daily News Staff Writers

Relatives
and colleagues of Robert Fazio Jr. mourn at his memorial
service.

s thousands
of uniformed police officers and firefighters stood solemnly
in closed ranks, two brothers were remembered yesterday as heroes
who gave their lives helping others in the World Trade Center
disaster.

Firefighter Peter Langone,
41, and Police Officer Thomas Langone, 39, were saluted for service
to their city, their country and their families in a moving memorial
Mass at St. Aidan's Church in Williston Park, L.I.

Both men had helped
in the aftermath of the twin towers bombing in 1993, and Thomas
Langone volunteered to help in Oklahoma City after the federal
building was bombed.

That devotion brought
Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating to yesterday's service. "These
two wonderful beings laid down their lives for us, and we will
always be grateful," Keating said.

Thomas Langone was last
seen in a stairwell on the 20th floor of 2 World Trade Center.

Steve Stefanakos, who
worked with Thomas Langone at Emergency Services Squad 10, said
the fallen officer was called "Captain Adrenalin."

"He spoke 100 mph,"
Stefanakos said. "You had to be able to work at his pace."

Stefanakos also recalled
that on Sept. 10, "Tommy was shaving with his shirt off"
and fellow officers grabbed his razor and "shaved a big E10
on his back."

"If I get lost,"
Thomas Langone laughingly told his buddies, "now you guys
can find me."

The morning of Sept.
11, after the first hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center,
Peter Langone called his wife. "Turn on the TV," he
told her. "I'm going to the job." It was the last time
she heard from him.

"Both Thomas and
Peter died as heroes and American patriots," Mayor Giuliani
told 1,000 mourners inside the church.

Outside, thousands more
uniformed officers stood in the brisk sunshine in their dress
blues
— the firefighters in front, the police officers behind them.

"They went into
the battle knowing full well the dangers they were facing,"
the families said in a written statement contained in the program.
"There was never a day that they didn't go to their jobs with
happy hearts, loving every minute of what they did so well.

"We, their families,
are deeply saddened by our loss and immensely proud of their
heroic efforts." Besides their mother and two sisters, each
man leaves a wife and two children.